(DailyAnswer.org) – Stephen Schwarzman, co-founder and CEO of Blackstone, has declared his support for former President Donald Trump as a 2024 presidential candidate.
The announcement marks a u-turn after the CEO previously distanced himself from the presumptive presidential nominee. Schwarzman told reporters that he shared most Americans’ concerns that President Joe Biden’s policies on the economy, the border and foreign relations are taking the U.S. in the “wrong direction”. The CEO said he would support other Republicans including Republican candidates for Senate in addition to the former president. Schwarzman called the decision a “vote for change”.
The CEO claimed that a “dramatic rise in antisemitism” had also prompted him to focus more urgently on the outcome of the presidential election. Trump has recently promised to deport Anti-Israel protesters if he returns to the White House, though like the incumbent president he has not shied away from criticism, suggesting in April that Tel Aviv fired warning shots in a vain attempt to “look tough”. Biden has repeatedly reaffirmed his support for Israel, and recently introduced measures to combat antisemitism in response to Pro-Palestine protests on university campuses.
Independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. went as far to say any other nation would have “leveled” Gaza were it in Israel’s position. Biden’s antisemitism bill was opposed by some more right-leaning Republicans, however, who raised concerns that it could result in persecutions of Christians. Republican Georgia Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene and Florida Representative Matt Gaetz both claimed that the “gospel” stating that the Jews handed Christ over to his executioners would fit the definition of antisemitism laid out in the new bill.
Trump has been trying to close the cash cap between Biden’s campaign and his leading up to the November vote. Following Biden’s victory in the 2020 election, Schwartzman criticized Trump’s refusal to accept the result, calling the outcome “very certain” and telling the nation to move on. Schwarzman founded the private equity firm in 1985 and is currently worth approximately $39 billion. Following the 2020 election he distanced himself from the former president, saying the country needed to take a new direction.
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